Coat of arms of Mariestad
Mariestad’s gold shield has a lowered, wavy blue bend sinister with a rising bull above it.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I fält av guld en sänkt genom vågskura bildad blå ginbalk och uppstigande från denna en röd tjur.
The automatically assembled Swedish wording in the Heraldica record is separate registry information. The description and origin story below follow Mariestad Municipality’s graphic manual.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 1583: Used as a seal as of
- 2 November 1934: Royal confirmation on
- 16 July 1976: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The municipality’s published description
Mariestad Municipality’s graphic manual gives the blazon as a gold field with a lowered, wavy blue bend sinister with a rising bull above it. This presents the municipality’s verbal description, not details of how a particular drawing is rendered.
The municipality’s account of the arms’ origin
The manual tells a story in which Duke Karl, later Charles IX, saw a bull rise from the Tidan at Marieholm and took the sight as a symbol of the new town. In the same explanation, the bull and fields of grain in the background are linked to the agricultural landscape, while the Tidan represents trade and shipping. This is the interpretation reported in the municipality’s manual.
Heraldic elements
The heraldic elements are identified using HERO, a heraldry ontology published through Finland's Finto service. It provides structured terminology for describing coats of arms and their components. The list describes the structure of the arms, not the symbolic meaning of its elements.
- escutcheon
- bend sinister
- field
- Or
- Gules
- bull
- Azure
- unpartitioned
Sources and image rights
Heraldica / National Archives of Finland · Wikidata
Image licence: CC BY-SA 3.0
Image source and credit: National Archives of Sweden / Vladimir Sagerlund
Original image. The image has been resized and converted to WebP. The derivative retains the original image’s licence.
